Chris Thrash became a cult hero this decade by painstakingly programming the Showbiz Pizza chain's animatronic Rock-A-Fire Explosion band to perform contemporary songs from Arcade Fire to Usher. One of the first, this is still the best one.

The guys in the Grizz have gotten a lot of mileage this decade out of marrying their labored-over, precise music with slightly seasick and off-kilter images, and the aesthetic has never looked better than on his video for Yellow House's standout track.

In the 1990s, Radiohead excelled at simple metaphors about paranoia ("Karma Police"), apathy ("Just"), and perpetual distraction ("No Surprises"). When they've done clips this decade, however, they've tended to be marvels of craft, such as this clip for "House of Cards", which was made without the use of cameras-- it was created using a pair of laser-like contraptions.

Another pure technical marvel in a visual career full of them for Björk, this video was made using something called stereoscopic 3-D. Near as we can tell that means, here that means using 2-D puppets, miniatures, live action, and computer graphics and laying them over one another to create the illusion of 3-D.